Race Course on Chickasaw Plantation (Location Key)

The "race-course" on the Chickasaw plantation indicates how important horse racing is to the tribe - at least in Faulkner's representation of them in "A Courtship" (372). When the Indian boy "runs once around the race-track" (372), we learn that it is laid out as a circle or oval, like the kind of tracks built by white southern horse breeders and plantation owners. In the story it also serves as the site of an eating contest.